A sliver of hope: season one

by Bookshelf-

Chapter 1 Of prophecies and peril

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Once were two vibrant sisters. The eldest one, Celestia raised the sun to bring forth a new day and lowered it come the time of night. The younger one raised the moon to begin the night and lowered it come the daytime. One fateful day, the young sister grew hateful and resentful towards her sister. The ponies laughed and frolicked in the daytime but slept and shunned her beautiful night. So with this, the younger sister transformed into a monstrous beast known as Nightmare Moon.The eldest sister had no choice but to use the elements of harmony. These elements were embedded with magical power. When used, they could defeat dark magic. Without any choice, the older sister used the elements, banishing her sister in the moon for 1000 moons. It says that the stars will aid her escape, and on the longest day of the thousand year, she will return.  Then she will bring an eternal night to all.


Twilight Sparkle looked up from her book, thinking about the legend she had just read. She did not know what to think about this so she decided in the end, she would ask Princess Celestia about it. She started to run home, but she was stopped by her "friends". Twilight didn't have time for silly friend making. She had more important things to attend to  then making new friends, but these ponies were in front of her.

"So Twilight, Moondancer is having a party. Want to come?" Lemon Drops asked eagerly. Moondancer was a friend of Twilight's, even though Twilight didn't really care about that.

Twilight thought of an excuse quickly before she responded with a sheepish smile, "Oh, sorry, girls, but I have to study."

Then, she began running off, leaving them in a sour mood. The last thing she heard was Lyra saying, "Does she do anything but study?"

Twilight Sparkle burst into her room that was located in the castle of Princess Celestia. As she did, she looked around for her assistant Spike the Dragon. As Twilight did not see Spike at first, but then she heard a groan from behind the door. It was her dragon assistant!

Spike was purple from head to toe including his tail. The only other color on his body was green. He had a green belly along with green scales on his back. He also had dark green eyes and a forked tongue; unlike the other dragons, Spike was raised among ponies. Therefore he had picked up on the customs, history and culture.

Twilight Sparkle looked at her dragon helper before she noticed a package held by his tail. She looked at Spike in confusion.

"What is that?" Asked Twilight

"Well it was a present for Moondancer," answered Spike, saddened by the loss of the gift.

"Spike, you know we have no time for that. I need your help. Get me the book Predictions and Prophecies," commanded Twilight as she searched the books she was holding.

"Found it!" Said Spike, waving the dusty book.

Twilight, using her magical ability, levitated the book to herself; knocking Spike off of his ladder in process. She opened the book looking for the page about the Mare in the Moon. She found what she was looking for, but it was only a little bit more information on the story.

'

Once the stars aid in her escape she will bring nighttime to all.'

Twilight looked up from the book, her mind full of questions. Then she decided on a solution.

"Spike write a letter," Twilight ordered. After Spike took an empty scroll and a quill, she cleared her throat and began,

"Dear Princess Celestia,

I have reason to suspect that Nightmare Moon is returning. Please take action. I await your response.

Your Faithful Student,

Twilight Sparkle”

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'Dear whomever reads this,

I am writing this because I can't keep on living life like this. I have no pony who cares about me. No pony will miss me.

The other kids at school bully me for being different. I'm sorry that I was born this way. Please forgive me for doing this. I am sorry.

From Wisdom'

The little light green colt finished writing the letter and left it on the table.  Then he went to get a ribbon from his room. Once he did so, he left for Sweet Apple Acres.

He evenutally reached his destination and begun to tie the ribbon onto a tree branch. When he finished his task he climbed up the tree, got into place, and let gravity do the rest.


Twilight and Spike were at Sweet Apple Acres, sampling the delectable food for the summer sun celebration. As Spike looked closely at the vast amount of apple trees, he saw something peculiar. It looked like a pony or at least something shaped like a pony.

"Twilight, there's something over there," Spike trembled with a little bit of fear in his voice.

"Spike there's nothing-" the lavender unicorn stopped mid sentence, her eyes widening. Applejack also spotted the object, wondering what could possibly be.

Twilight, Spike, and Applejack ran towards it, and they saw it was a pony hanging by a red ribbon. In fear, Twilight used her magic to untie the ribbon and levitate the young unicorn off of the tree branch, hoping that he was still alive. She gently placed the colt on the soft, green grass.

"Where is the hospital?" Asked Twilight, beads of sweat forming on her forehead. You could easily tell she was panicking.

"It would probably be best if I showed y'all," Applejack gulped.

Twilight then levitated the green colt with her horn glowing purple as she and Spike followed Applejack to the hospital.

~2 hours later~

Wisdom woke up in a soft bed. He turned his head to only see a white wall. He lifted his head and as he did so, pain was rushing inside him. He cringed as he saw a two ponyies come in the room. One has a lavender coat She look irritated to be there. The other one was white, and Wisdom assumed that she was the nurse, judging by the hat.

"How are you, honey?" Asked the nurse.

"I-I'm fine," Wisdom stuttered.

"Well," the nurse started, "you have bruises on you. Does it hurt?"

Before he could say anything, the purple unicorn spoke up, "May I please go now?"

"Sorry, Miss Sparkle, but we need somepony to check him out of here," said the nurse. The lavender pony sighed in dismay.

After that, the nurse checked Wisdom's injures just in case. The only injures she found was a few scars on his stomach. The nurse let Wisdom get off the bed and let Twilight Sparkle take him to the waiting room to check Wisdom out of the hospital. As they walked into the waiting room, Wisdom saw a purple and green dragon sitting on a chair, looking apprehensive. When he saw them, the dragon got off the chair and walk over to them.

"Hi, I'm Spike," Spike said with his claw outstretched. As he did so, Wisdom closed his eyes and trembled in fear.

"Are you ok?" Asked Twilight, concerned.

"Y-yes I'm fine. I just thought.." Wisdom trailed off.

"Ok then," The lavender unicorn said. As she did she was analyzing the colts behavior.

"I didn't get your name," said Spike

"I'm sorry, I'm Wisdom,"replied wisdom

"It's ok, Wisdom." Said Spike, already detecting the fear in his voice as he went up and hugged him.

Wisdom didn't want what happened last time to happen again. He didn't want to be called a fagot.

I'm sorry, Princess Celestia, for being gay, I'm sorry I'm an abomination  Wisdom thought solemnly.

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